Lui Shini

Saw these quite some time back in Chelsea...and recently rediscovered the slip of paper that I had written his name on in the bottom of an old handbag.



"Untitled" [this one reminds me of my friend, Ben Morey.]



"Dentures and Ants"



"For internal use only"


See his blog here.

Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gomez

From the series "Fried Waters"; shot in Yucatan, Mexico. Buy prints here!

Kelley Walker

I like toothpaste, and I like VIBE. So therefore I like the following art pieces.





More here.

Ever wonder how crystals grow?

Here's how:

Crystals are structures that are formed from a regular repeated pattern of connected atoms or molecules. Crystals grow by a process termed nucleation. During nucleation, the atoms or molecules that will crystallize (solute) are dissolved into their individual units in a solvent. The solute particles contact each other and connect with each other. This subunit is larger than an individual particle, so more particles will contact and connect with it. Eventually, this crystal nucleus becomes large enough that it falls out of solution (crystallizes). Other solute molecules will continue to attach to the surface of the crystal, causing it to grow until a balance or equilibrium is reached between the solute molecules in the crystal and those that remain in the solution.

From About.com.

Gerda Steiner and Jorg Lenzlinger

Installation artists whom work with all sorts of media, including growing their own crystals.





See their official website here.

Flickr user: dardilrocks

An individual whom collects minerals and cuts his own specimens. So beautiful...most of these are agate I believe.







Some detail shots.





Link to his Flickr page and to the Rock/Mineral Image Database group.

Jaimie Warren

My new roommate's response to me saying that there aren't many Baltimore photographers that I like. Website here.

Battles

Video for the song "Tonto". So many bands are doing things with LED lights now...

Lee Ranaldo and Leah Singer: Drift

Online this week only at pitchfork.

Surrealist Game: The Time Travelers Potlach

I think I want to create a weekly section on this blog where I find a new way to have fun for free. It sounds cheesy, but as my funds are depleting this is what I find myself resorting to.

In this vein I bring you the surrealist game Time Travelers Potlach.

"In Time-Travelers' Potlatch, each player indicates the gift that she/he would present to various historical, mythical, or fictional figures on the occasion of their meeting. The game introduces the object into an imaginary relationship that otherwise tends to be defined too superficially by an arbitrary and abstract subjectivity. The object?the gift?functions symbolically between the giver (the player, who lives in the present) and the receiver (who dwells in the past, or on another plane of existence). Altering the relationship between the two, the imagined gift constitutes a third term: a catalyst of the future in the form of a crystallization of desire. Thus the game opens a new approach, from an unanticipated angle, to all the old and unresolved problems of projection, identification, idealization, fixation, obsession, etc. "

There are some really fun examples of the game here.

Shoplifter

An artist whom mostly works with hair.





From his White Wedding series.

William Loveless

I don't know much about this guy, but apparently he makes "process paintings". This semister I made a book using acetate, glue, and pigment and I managed to achieve similar results. I would like to work with a similar process again for creating my own negatives to use in the darkroom. View the series here.